Daft irrational fears.

[AlasdairMc]

Fermit and Sarah said:

I have a weird one. I hate driving over level crossings. I always get an image of being swiped by a train.

That's not weird. I always look both ways when driving across one, and I'm never sure if it's out of fear or optimism that I might be able to see a train in the distance

[RogerExplosion]

Revolving Doors... gives me the fking heebeez

[J4CKO]

AppleJuice said:

Lucas CAV said:

Deep water doesn't bother me.

But I absolutely could not swim alongside a large ship, in dark water with submerged fixtures etc i.e. in a harbour.


Even worse is the thought of swimming around a shipwreck..

The horror:

+1

I know what you mean, stuff like dams and anything like that, it doesnt terrify me but it makes me feel a bit weird, we went to the Hoover dam and that was fantastic but did set me off, its hard to explain.

My missus has lots of fears but a lot of them are complete edge case scenarios, I hung the garage keys on the wire post thing that stops the dog eating the post, whilst I sorted some stuff in the garage as I was back and forth, she insisted I move the keys lest someone, in the middle of the day reaches through and grabs them, which actually looked pretty difficult and extremely unlikely in the ten minutes they were there, and they would only get in the garage, which is blocked off from the rest of the house.

[P5BNij]

Fermit and Sarah said:

I have a weird one. I hate driving over level crossings. I always get an image of being swiped by a train.

I have this one too, but the other way round...

Deep water is my 'real' one, ever since a trip to Coniston Water when I was 17 when one of the other kids started larking about trying to turn the canoe over - I fell in!

[davhill]

Podie said:

Aren’t all fears irrational by definition?

Nope. Irrational fears lie at the root of phobias. It's a sliding scale though. An arachnophobic may fear a spider bite leading to death, which is not wholly rational. Another arachnophobic might be terrified at the sight of the stem part on a tomato, which is irrational.

Think of it this way. Ever heard of a tiger phobic?

[FerdiZ28]

gooner1]ucas CAV said:

Deep water doesn't bother me.

But I absolutely could not swim alongside a large ship, in dark water with submerged fixtures etc i.e. in a harbour.


Even worse is the thought of swimming around a shipwreck..

The horror:


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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0AckvdGbk4w

Submechanophobia. I have it too. I'm big into military history and want desperately to go to the USS Arizona, but I think I'd have a seizure.

[droopsnoot]

AlasdairMc said:

Fermit and Sarah said:

I have a weird one. I hate driving over level crossings. I always get an image of being swiped by a train.

That's not weird. I always look both ways when driving across one, and I'm never sure if it's out of fear or optimism that I might be able to see a train in the distance

I also look both ways when crossing, though I'm not entirely sure why.

I can't do heights, I'm always thinking about how much it will hurt if I fall "off" whatever is high up. But when I crossed the aqueduct near Llangollen a couple of years ago, I was more worried about falling in the canal because I can't swim. My rational side reminds me it's only about 18" deep, but it was still more worrying than the height above the river.

[Steviesam]

I get the deep water one too. Not just 10 or 50 feet, but very deep.

I think it stems from my brother, who was in navy, telling me that they stopped the ship once and allowed them to have a swim as they were above a trench (somewhere in Asia IIRC)

The water was 5 miles deep

[Triumph Man]

I've probably said this before, but I have a phobia of prosthetic arms. If I see someone with one, I'm afraid I just have to turn and go the other way, if I'm in a scenario where I'm "trapped" with that person I get full on sweats, palpitations, and nausea.

Typing this is making my heart race

It has been suggested that therapy might be an idea...

[Shakermaker]

Triumph Man said:

I've probably said this before, but I have a phobia of prosthetic arms. If I see someone with one, I'm afraid I just have to turn and go the other way, if I'm in a scenario where I'm "trapped" with that person I get full on sweats, palpitations, and nausea.

Typing this is making my heart race

It has been suggested that therapy might be an idea...

How frequently are you encountering people with prosthetic arms that this becomes an issue for you?

Surprisingly in my line of work, I can probably count the number of times on one hand I've met someone with only one hand/arm, in 15+ years.

[S11Steve]

I think my other half found this out when we went swimming in a Mexican Cenote, She'll happily swim in the sea from the shoreline, and even scuba dive, but the inky black depth beneath her in that pool freaked her out.


I have a "phobia" (of sorts) of hairdressers, although I'm not sure it's irrational as it stems from a having a serious head injury years ago. The whole process of someone touching my head makes me feel uncomfortable, even typing this I can feel myself clamming up.
The mother in law is a hair dresser, and I can just about sit through a quick cut with her at the scissors.

[Triumph Man]

Shakermaker said:

Triumph Man said:

I've probably said this before, but I have a phobia of prosthetic arms. If I see someone with one, I'm afraid I just have to turn and go the other way, if I'm in a scenario where I'm "trapped" with that person I get full on sweats, palpitations, and nausea.

Typing this is making my heart race

It has been suggested that therapy might be an idea...

How frequently are you encountering people with prosthetic arms that this becomes an issue for you?

Surprisingly in my line of work, I can probably count the number of times on one hand I've met someone with only one hand/arm, in 15+ years.

Thankfully not that often, however if I'm due to go to an event with lots of people I can get worked up that I might see my phobia.

Edited by Triumph Man on Monday 17th September 15:03

[Gargamel]

Not bothered about deep water, have swum in the Indian Ocean, Pacific and Atlantic, in the Indian I was off a boat with no land in sight...

Also not bothered about submerged objects/ wreck or any of that stuff.

However I have swum into sea caves ... unpleasant, and I kind of feel the same about quarry swims.

Just. something. not. quite. right.

[Lemming Train]

Heights for me, but only if the area isn't safe or doesn't look safe. I've no problem being in a plane at 40,000 ft or even an enclosed cable car several thousand feet up between mountains, for example.

This, on the other hand, I cannot even watch from the comfort of my armchair without going light-headed, nauseous and stting myself that I'm about to fall to my death : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_h2AjJaMw&t=...

[Halmyre]

droopsnoot said:

AlasdairMc said:

Fermit and Sarah said:

I have a weird one. I hate driving over level crossings. I always get an image of being swiped by a train.

That's not weird. I always look both ways when driving across one, and I'm never sure if it's out of fear or optimism that I might be able to see a train in the distance

I also look both ways when crossing, though I'm not entirely sure why.

I do that as well, there's always the chance that the interlocks fail Probably best not to look to be honest...

My fear is exposed lift shafts (and I'm not to keen on lifts in the first place). Open stairwells of umpteen storeys, no problem, but show me an open set of lift doors with nothing behind them but a dark void and wild horses will not drag me further.

(...paging Dr Freud...)

[Gargamel]

Lemming Train said:

Heights for me, but only if the area isn't safe or doesn't look safe. I've no problem being in a plane at 40,000 ft or even an enclosed cable car several thousand feet up between mountains, for example.

This, on the other hand, I cannot even watch from the comfort of my armchair without going light-headed, nauseous and stting myself that I'm about to fall to my death : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_h2AjJaMw&t=...

The whole thing is good, but have a look at 7:04


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA-TSYo4z0E

[Jasandjules]

Not afraid as such I've swam in quite open water without a problem.

BUT once I did a wall dive (needed to see some pelagics) and was happily mooching along the ridge when I swam out over the edge - they told me it was over a mile straight down - I actually went a bit dizzy/giddy as I swam over what was a lovely wall then a second later just a black abyss.

[alorotom]

Diving ... the silence i found creepy and super scary

Snakes ... doesn’t have enough legs and can’t be trusted

I don’t have an issue with heights or any of the ‘normal’ stuff but do have a very irrational fear of dying in a fire

[Jimmy Recard]

FerdiZ28 said:

Submechanophobia. I have it too. I'm big into military history and want desperately to go to the USS Arizona, but I think I'd have a seizure.

This is mine. Open water is totally fine but even a chain on a buoy petrifies me. On a boat or jetski, I can't go near buoys because the idea of that chain in the water scares me so much.

On a beach I used to go to, there was a pipeline going out to sea. If the tide was out and I couldn't see the pipe going into the water, I could happily sit on it and eat my sandwiches. If the tide was closer in and I could see where the water touched it, I couldn't go near it, even if the water was a hundred yards away.

This is it. It went for ages and it was a really shallow beach and the tide could be miles away so you pretty much couldn't see it from the start of the pipe or it could submerge the entire pipe. Llanbedrog.



I don't think I have any other phobia. I don't like spiders or bugs but I can pick them up and whatever if I need to get rid of them, I just find it unpleasant.

[DickyC]

Ten years or so ago I worked with a lovely Irish guy called Nessan. He was a gentle giant who had a bunch of stories. One was about being bullied by his first boss when he first came to England. He was nineteen and found a job in a pub and his boss soon worked out that his young Irish recruit, despite his size, could be pushed around. One evening Ness was five minutes late to work and saw his boss striding across the pub to give him a hard time. Ness played the sympathy card. He had been to the doctor's and then the chemist to get some tablets. In those days tablets were counted into a little brown bottle and before the cap was put on a piece of cotton wool was put inside the bottle. So, as his bully of a boss advanced thteateningly, he unscrewed the cap and pulled out the cotton wool. The boss stopped and looked horrified. He had a fear of cotton wool.

The gentle giant ended his story with the words, "And after that he was mine."